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BMS

Version 1.1.1
Script last updated: 04 April 2004

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What is it

bms generates statistics from your sendmail logs of rejected mail. This could be due to:

Specified relay hosts being denied either through access database or RBL's.
Spammers trying to relay spam through your server.
Unresolvable domain names of the sender or IP address of relay server.
SMTP AUTH or STARTTLS sessions being rejected.

There are plenty of other scripts that will summarize sendmail traffic, but I couldn't find any that summarized the rejected mail, hence bms was born.

Examples

HTML output

HTML output with details

Plain text output

Options

You can call bms with the following flags:

-d --detail     Show details of each entry
-h --html       Produce HTML output
-i --ignore     Ignore entries matching specified regex
-l --log        Read from specified log (Default: /var/log/syslog)
-m --match      Include entries matching specified regex
-o --output     Output to specified file
-t --top        Number of entries in the summary (Default: 10)
-v --verbose    Verbose output
-w --width      Maximum width of message